Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴

@jockr
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Elbows up! 🇨🇦 An IT Professional with interests in economics, science, history and technology. Guelph, Ontario.

Born at 319 ppm

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116340806765317509

Awesome way to keep track of the #Artemis mission!

Drip-feed of Reform UK controversies puts party’s policy drive in shade | Reform UK | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/02/reform-uk-drip-feed-controversies-policy

Drip-feed of Reform UK controversies puts party’s policy drive in shade

Sacking of Simon Dudley is latest distraction at a time when party is keen to show it is serious contender for government

The Guardian

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116342406853965633

This entire edifice needs tearing down.

Roses are red

Trump is lugubrious

RE: https://mastodon.social/@theleftistlawyer/116341320455506204

Pretty rich for the Trump regime and US government to say anything about international law as they murder civilians on fishing boats in international waters, massacred 168 school girls, and threaten an entire population of Iran in concert with someone under international warrant for arrest for War Crimes.

New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-advances-bring-the-era-of-quantum-computers-closer-than-ever-20260403/

New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever | Quanta Magazine

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies.

Quanta Magazine

The Guardian: US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran releases wreckage images

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/us-fighter-jet-confirmed-shot-down-over-iran

#IranWar #war #Iran

One of two US crew members rescued after F-15E jet shot down over Iran

Officials say other remains missing in first downing of US fighter plane since start of war

The Guardian

Trump seeks massive $1.5tn for defence alongside cuts in domestic spending

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr1q4kjvn2o

Trump seeks massive $1.5tn for defence alongside cuts in domestic spending

The US president's new budget would cut non-defence spending by 10%, partly by slashing domestic programmes.

'This has got me worried': Iranians fear what comes next after US strike on Karaj bridge

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp86mrj40e2o

'This has got me worried': Iranians fear what comes next after US strike on Karaj bridge

President Trump has warned Iran of strikes on bridges and electric power plants if its leaders do not agree to his terms to end the war.

Premier Danielle Smith’s immigration referendum fuels an ‘us versus them’ divide in #Alberta

“…they enact what French philosopher Étienne Balibar, whose scholarship is seminal to understanding new forms of racism, has described as “racism without race” — when cultural differences are mobilized to marginalize minority communities; in this case, #immigrants to Alberta.”

https://theconversation.com/danielle-smiths-immigration-referendum-fuels-an-us-versus-them-divide-in-alberta-278577

Danielle Smith’s immigration referendum fuels an ‘us versus them’ divide in Alberta

Like other initiatives by Danielle Smith’s Alberta government, the scapegoating of immigrants follows a far-right playbook that has been effective in other places.

The Conversation